Miracle of the White Stallions
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Cast & Crew
Arthur Hiller
Robert Taylor
Lilli Palmer
Curt Jurgens
Eddie Albert
James Franciscus
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Synopsis
During the final critical months of World War II, Colonel Alois Podhajsky, the director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, is denied permission by General Stryker to evacuate the school's prized Lipizzan horses, endangered by the bombardment of the city. Desperate, he enlists the aid of General Tellheim, a sympathetic German who permits Podhajsky and his chief rider, Otto, to smuggle the white stallions to the safety of an old castle belonging to the Countess Arco-Valley. However, the mares had earlier been transferred to Czechoslovakia, and Podhajsky is now faced with the possibility of the rare breed becoming extinct. When an American advance guard arrives at the castle, Podhajsky stages a performance in order to persuade General Patton to include the Lipizzan mares as part of the Allied prisoner liberation program, and the Spanish Riding School becomes officially protected by the United States Army. Under the command of Colonel Reed, the Lipizzan mares are rounded up from Czechoslovakia before the arrival of the Russian force and returned to Podhajsky, thus insuring the continuation of the breed. Ten years later, on the 212th anniversary of the Riding Hall, the Lipizzans are once more performing at the Imperial Court in Vienna.
Director
Arthur Hiller
Cast
Robert Taylor
Lilli Palmer
Curt Jurgens
Eddie Albert
James Franciscus
John Larch
Brigitte Horney
Philip Abbott
Douglas Fowley
Charles Regnier
Fritz Wepper
Günther Haenel
Hans Habietinek
Philo Hauser
Michael Janisch
Margarethe Dux
Max Haufler
Robert Dietl
Josef Krastel
Peter Jost
Kurt Jager
Olaf Tschierschke
Herbert Prikopa
Erik Schuman
Helmut Janatsch
Michael Tellering
Hal Galili
Harry Hornisch
Hugo Lindinger
Larry Billman
Fritz Eckhardt
Crew
Günther Anders
Leo Bei
Auguste Bruenjes-goldschwendt
A. J. Carothers
Robert O. Cook
Dakova Stud Farms
Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Peter V. Herald
Leopold Kuhnert
Lipica Stud Farms
Franklyn Marks
Kent Mcpherron
Rudolf Ohlschmidt
Peter Pochlatko
Col. Alois Podhajsky
Laci Von Ronay
Robert Russ
Isabella Schlichting
Werner Schlichting
Kurt Schwarz
Richard M. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Paul Smith
Alfred Srp
Walter Tjaden
Paul Waldherr
Paul Waldherr
Cotton Warburton
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Partially filmed in Vienna.
